Burnley Express
5/10/1918 (P) 19/10/1918
Burnley
News, October 9, 1918 pg. 4 (there is a photo with the news article)
BRIERCLIFFE SPORTSMAN.
Well-known Boxer's Death
Reported By Comrade.
A Brierfield soldier, Pte. George Kenniford,
home on leave, has (as we stated on Saturday), been the bearer of sad
news to Mr. and Mrs. Illingworth Ingham, of Bullions Close Farm, Lane
Head, Briercliffe.
Their son Lance-Corpl. Ernest Ingham, Welsh Fusiliers, had just prior
to his comrade's departure, fallen in action. Having joined up in June
1916, Lce.Cpl. Ingham was subsequently sent out to serve with the
forces in Palestine. He then went to France, where he won high praise
for gallantry. He was 23 years of age, and unmarried. He was well-known
as a clever boxer. He is on the roll of Honour of St.
James Parish Church, Briercliffe. His grandfather's the late Ebenezer
Wood, yeoman farmer, and Connor Ingham, hairdresser, of Abel street, Burnley,
were men of good standing. Pte. Geo. Kenniford, Jewel Mill, was with Ingham
when he fell on the 21st September, and rendered what help he could.
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